# Hein Hoyer

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'''Hein Hoyer''' (lat. ''Hinricus Hoyeri'') (c. 1380 in [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg) – 12 May 1447 in Hamburg) was a German statesman and [mayor of Hamburg](/source/List_of_mayors_of_Hamburg).

His family belonged to the local upper class and Hoyer was elected as a member of the ''[Rat](/source/Government_of_Hamburg)'' (board/council), where he defended the interests of the bourgeois opposition against the older families, in 1413. The politician was selected as [burgomaster](/source/burgomaster) (mayor) and head of the delegation to the [Hanseatic League](/source/Hanseatic_League) as well as to the [Council of Constance](/source/Council_of_Constance) four years later.

Hoyer played a major role in the negotiations of the peace treaty of [Vordingborg](/source/Vordingborg_Castle) (1435), between the Hanseatic League and [Adolf VIII, Count of Holstein](/source/Adolf_VIII%2C_Count_of_Holstein) on the one and Denmark on the other side.

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== External links ==
* Heinrich Reincke: [http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0001/bsb00016326/images/index.html?seite=684 Hein Hoyer] in [Neue Deutsche Biographie](/source/Neue_Deutsche_Biographie), Vol. 9 (1972), p. 668. (German)

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